Easily
Make a Variety of Presentation Charts from your Microsoft Project
files
The Connections tab on Milestones Professional toolbar offers easy access to all Microsoft Project options.
To start the Project to Milestones Wizard:
Choose Create Report
from Project
or Create Report from Project Server to start the Project
to Milestones Wizard
The Project to Milestones Wizard offers a visual representation
of the schedule as it is created, allowing you to see the
effects of the formatting choices you make in a dynamically
updated screen.
Start off by choosing from one of the built-in formats or use
your own custom chart to begin.
Follow the prompts and watch as
your Microsoft Project information is brought into a
professional-looking Milestones schedule.
NOTE: Requires Microsoft
Project 2002 or later to be installed on your computer.
The Project to
Milestones Wizard offers 11 categories:
View Examples
Gantt
contains layouts suited to a basic Gantt schedule, including
start and finish dates. The Gantt step-by-step offers the
most flexibility of all of the wizard formats.
Stoplight
formats offer several commonly used presentation red, yellow,
green stoplight charts for easy management viewing of key indicators.
Milestone
charts show tasks with zero duration or finish dates only.
Summary
charts are condensed presentation formats.
Choose one of the
earned value
formats and show an earned value graph along with your project schedule.
Resource
charts show work variance, resources and other data by task,
often with a graph below the schedule.
Status
formats display current, remaining, or slipping tasks.
Dashboard
charts offer several unique formats with the popular
“dashboard” appearance and content.
Coded
Summary allows extra flexibility for the data imported by letting
you code tasks in Microsoft Project.
Special
offers three formats which did not fall into one of the previous
categories: Work remaining versus money remaining, percent complete bar
graph, and finish variance.
The
Custom
category is reserved for presentation formats you add. When you
find a presentation format you like, customize it with additional
columns, and change other aspects. Then add it to the custom
category and it will appear on the menu.
In Milestones Professional 2008 and higher
Choose the Connections tab.
In the Microsoft Office Project
section choose Create Report from Project.
Once you locate your file, just follow the
Wizard to build a presentation chart that meets your needs.
In Milestones Professional or Milestones Project Companion
Version 2006
Choose the File menu.
Choose Import Data... MS Project.... to start the process.
Once you locate your file, just follow the
Wizard to build a presentation chart that meets your needs.
